Milk and honey
Posted: November 15, 2012 Filed under: Uncategorized 8 CommentsLucky me. No one needed milk or honey while I was drawing this at my favourite Thursday sketching spot.
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Lovely how your skillful line work creates such volume. Great patterning – how the arrangement of objects, lights and darks, mirrors what seems to be the pattern on the wall. This is the Moleskine sketchbook right? And different weights of pencil? Or only one?
Thanks Alison. This is in that sketchbook with one pencil. My favorite Muji pencil with a B lead. Always afraid I will lose the pencil and have to go to Paris or New York to get another one. I guess there are worse things than that.
I hadn’t noticed the Thursday pattern but, looking back, I can clearly see it now… I will be looking forward to next Thursday’s outing to the coffee shop.
This was very brave of you… I would have been so tempted to put that spiral jug on a different table… that is so hard to get right, but you have made it look very convincing. And the metal containers look very metallic. But the angle of the sketch seems quite low… were you sitting on the floor to sketch (like in your mini comment photos)? Or are you actually shorter in real life than you appear in your workshop photos? : )
I don’t usually sit on the floor in a café. I was sitting at a table and the coffee stuff was on a higher counter, putting it at my eye level. You do have tables in cafés in Australia, don’t you? : )
Yes, Shari, we have tables in cafes Australia… but let’s not get things confused here… I am the one who is supposed to be asking the tongue-in-cheek, sarcastic questions… you are just supposed to post good artwork and give exasperated answers… did you forget? : )
It was a momentary lapse. I will revert to exasperation.
Shari: who would have DARED to take the hone away with you drawing it!? This is wonderful, economical, pencil work. Your students are so fortunate to have a working artist for a teacher. You must be wonderful in the classroom.
Lee, you are too kind. I don’t know what my students would say but I love teaching and I think students always react well to a teacher who is enthusiastic about the subject.